Geographical Original of Music Data Set

title

Geographical Original of Music Data Set

homepage

http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/geographical+original+of+music

description

The dataset was built from a personal collection of 1059 tracks covering 33 countries/area. The music used is traditional, ethnic or `world' only, as classified by the publishers of the product on which it appears. Any Western music is not included because its influence is global - what we seek are the aspects of music that most influence location. Thus, being able to specify a location with strong influence on the music is central. The geographical location of origin was manually collected the information from the CD sleeve notes, and when this information was inadequate we searched other information sources. The location data is limited in precision to the country of origin. The country of origin was determined by the artist's or artists' main country/area of residence. Any track that had ambiguous origin is not included. We have taken the position of each country's capital city (or the province of the area) by latitude and longitude as the absolute point of origin. The program MARSYAS[1] was used to extract audio features from the wave files. We used the default MARSYAS settings in single vector format (68 features) to estimate the performance with basic timbal information covering the entire length of each track. No feature weighting or pre-filtering was applied. All features were transformed to have a mean of 0, and a standard deviation of 1. We also investigated the utility of adding chromatic attributes. These describe the notes of the scale being used. This is especially important as a distinguishing feature in geographical ethnomusicology. The chromatic features provided by MARSYAS are 12 per octave - Western tuning, but it may be possible to tell something from how similar to or different from Western tuning the music is. [1] G. Tzanetakis and P. Cook, “MARSYAS: a framework for audio analysis,” Organised Sound, vol. 4, pp. 169–175, 2000.

creator or project

Fang Zhou

type

Dataset

purpose

Research

audience

researchers

developers

task or research field

music analysis

music information retrieval

technical features

Shares data in open data formats

Offers data export or dump

scope of the collection

Geographical

geographical scope of data

worldwide

collection size

<10000

data formats

txt

data license

Not specified

data size

~Kb

data download URL

http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/00315/


URI

https://w3id.org/musow/1638795966-4064233